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This episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers Support the American farmers and ranchers who've fed this country for 250amazing years. Subscribe@goodranchers.com, use code KNOWLES. Get free meat for life and 25 bucks off your first order. 1/3 of the world's fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz. So the strait's closure amid the Iran war is creating a major problem for agriculture. But Democrat lawmakers in Oklahoma are taking that problem as an opportunity to legalize the composting of human bodies. Turning family members into mulch is not typically what we think of as a kitchen table political issue, but I suppose literally it is. If you live in Oklahoma or in 14 other Democrat controlled states, you could soon be eating fruits and veggies that sprouted from Granny's rotted corpse. We will get to the political and religious confusion that has led to human composting. And then speaking of religious confusion, the Church of England. The Church of England is officially, for the first time ever, led by a priestess. And speaking of political confusion, a bunch of pro Iran Muslims take to the streets of Philly, the birthplace of the Constitution, to protest America. Michael I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Left wing streamer Hassan Piker has just clarified that he does not support the terrorist state of Israel or the terrorist state of America, which has me wondering why we don't prosecute him and ideally denaturalize him. We'll get to that. We'll get to that in the context of this pro Iran Muslim protest in Philly. First, though, I want to expound upon my love of Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com, use code KNOWLES K N W L E S as America turns 250 years old, we're all going to hear a lot about fundamental transformation and reimagining this country. Not interested. I want to remember the people that built America. 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That was a good ranchers is a good way to grow food in America. Human composting, I dare say, is a bad way to grow food. Here we have an Oklahoma legislator discussing the debate. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Representative, I just gotta ask, do you believe. Do you really believe that human remains, or even my favorite subject, human poop, are okay as compost or fertilizer? Do you really believe that in this situation? Yes. Yes, I do. So that's Shaw for Oklahoma. You can go follow him. He asked that question so that there's no confusion. You hear this story, you say, surely there's some misunderstanding. Surely they're not talking about grinding granny into mulch so that I can grow tomatoes or something like that? No, that's exactly what they're talking about. Then you have to ask yourself, okay, I don't know very much about agriculture. I'm not a farmer. Is that normal? Is that something we've done, we've ever done in America? No, your intuition would be correct. That's not something that we've normally done in America. In fact, the first state to legalize human composting was Washington state in the year of our Lord 2020. So it's a little over five years old now. 14 blue states in America, obviously all blue states, all states run by Democrats are the ones that have legalized human composting. Why? How has this happened? This is one of those great political. I mean, it's a bad political issue. It's super gross and horrifying and inhuman and suggests that our civilization is on the very brink of collapse. But it's one of those great political issues in the sense that it shows you the connection between deep philosophical principles, anthropological principles, religion, and practical politics. I know there are a lot of people who are more kind of meat and potatoes politics people. Not granny tomatoes, but meat and potatoes. And they say, look, I don't want to hear all this highfalutin, nerdy philosophy. I don't want to hear about John Locke or Aristotle. I don't need too much religion with my politics, okay? Can we just have a normal country? Can we just get some. Can we cut taxes and have. Well, I agree, the political nerds, they're sometimes a little annoying. But you can't do regular, normal politics without religion and philosophy, because politics rests on a moral order even. Well, obviously it rests on a moral order, but it rests on moral principles, our understanding of the moral order. And that presumes all sorts of things about who we are, human beings, about where we fit into the world, how we can come to know anything, what existence even is. And ultimately, when you get down to it, it gets down to religion. All human conflict, ultimately, is theological, as Cardinal Manning tells us. And this is a clear example of that, because, let me ask you, ordinary. Well, not you maybe, but the ordinary liberal, not all that seriously religious person, just kind of goes about his day. What's wrong with composting granny? What's really wrong with it? You could probably tell me what's wrong with it. You could probably tell me that this is contrary to human dignity, that this diminishes our own humanity. Actually, when we treat our corpses in this disrespectful sort of way, that actually we treat the body with some kind of reverence, because we recognize that human beings have dignity and we want to treat them with reverence. And we recognize that human beings are not merely spirits flitting in outer space, but that we are, in a real way, our bodies, not merely souls imprisoned by some husk that is evil. But we are, in a real integrated way, our bodies. And this teaches us something about our place in the world. It allows us to think about what happens after we die. It leads us to think about what comes next, potentially even the resurrection, yes, the resurrection of the body, which is what we have believed in traditionally in the west, once known as Christendom. You could probably tell me all that. But the ordinary Lib for. For whom morality begins and ends with, well, was it consensual? That kind of lib can't tell you why it's wrong. We all know it's wrong because we all have something that the bioethicist Leon Cass described as the wisdom of repugnance. We all know, to use an example, I think I mentioned this earlier in the week as an example of this very same principle. We all know that it's wrong for a brother and sister to get married. We all know that's wrong. But if you take all the externalities out of it, if you say the brother and sister are 65 years old, they're not gonna have kids, there aren't gonna be birth defects, but they are gonna bump uglies and get married and share a house, and it's just gross, right? And it's just gross and is obviously immoral and certainly should be illegal. We all say that. But if your whole moral understanding begins and ends with, well, was it consensual? Now, you're not able to articulate a reason why that's wrong. So if Granny says she wants to be ground up into mulch, shouldn't she be allowed to do it? You know, you do you. It's a free country, right? Now, of course, the people who gave us our free country, the founding fathers, the framers, the settlers, none of them would have been okay with grounding up Granny and Demulch. They all would have probably vomited at the very thought of that. But this is where liberalism and the liberal understanding of freedom has led us to. Now let's take it a step further beyond the political moral reasoning. You know, we used to think of things including consent, but beyond consent, there's more to morality than mere consent. Now we ask, well, why would Granny want to be turned to mulch? I don't want to be turned to mulch. I don't want to be ground up and thrown into a garden when I die. I would like to be buried in a coffin, maybe a mausoleum, I don't know, depending on how extravagant my family feels. But I definitely don't. I don't wanna be thrown out to the dogs and I don't want plants to spring from my body for you to eat. So why would Granny want to? Because we no longer broadly practice the religion that treated the body with reverence. Now, if people have any religion at all, it's some kind of woo woo, abstract New Age nature worship. And that's what this is. This is a nature culture. The idea that Some good can come from my body. I'll never be resurrected. There is no heaven, there is no hell. Imagine there's no heaven. But you know, some good can come of it. If a little flower springs from my corpse in that way, man, it's kind of like I'm living on, you know, when I take a dirt nap and turn to worm food, man, you know, but so that's, that's a religious point of view and that's inescapable. And our political order reinforces or suppresses various religious views. That's inescapable. So the question is, what kind of culture do you want to live in? You want to live in the Christian culture that gave us our country and all the glories of our civilization and led us to be the greatest country in the world and led to so much flourishing? Or do you want to be like a bunch of primitive knuckle dragging nature worshipers who are ghastly pagans who turn their granny into food? What do you want to be? You can say, well, I don't wanna choose freedom of religion. Do whatever you want. You do you. Well, okay, that is a decision. That's the kind of liberalism that led us to multifying. Granny, which do you wanna live in? Really? Have the courage to tell me you know the answer. Have the courage to tell me you wanna live in the Christian civilization. Okay, well, let's act like it and let's limit people's choices, especially when those choices are super duper gross. Speaking of confusion, the Church of England now has an archbishopric as its clerical leader. We'll get to that in a moment. First, I want to tell you, speaking of nature, what an amazing two ads to bookend the story of human composting good ranchers, followed by balance of nature. Go to balanceofnature.com this episode is sponsored by Balance of Nature. Does anyone else feel like nutrition is getting too complicated? You used to eat food. Now you need a PhD to read the back of a cereal box. Here's the reality we've all been told since we were kids to eat our fruits and veggies. I tell my own kids that. Nobody has ever explained to you though why you have to eat them, what you're after. 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